accoutre

See also: accoutré

English

Alternative forms

• (chiefly US) accouter

Etymology

• First attested in the 1590s.
• From French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  acconsūtūrāre (“to equip with clothes”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ad (“to”) + consūtūra (“sewing, clothes”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cōnsuō (“to sew together”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin con- (“together”) + suō (“to sew”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: ac-cou*tre, IPA^(key): /əˈkuːtə/

Verb

1. (transitive) To furnish with dress, or equipment, especially those for military service; to equip.

   Synonyms: attire, array

   • 1600, William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, III-iv:

     Both accoutred like young men.

   • 1810, Reuben Percy and Sholto Percy, The Percy Anecdotes

     It was therefore resolved that the king should ride on Humphrey Penderel's horse, which was taken from the grass, and accoutred with a pitiful old saddle and a worse bridle.

   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion

     Both while he trod the earth in humblest guise
     Accoutred with his burden and his staff

   • 6 July 2017, Tyrel Rodricks, Architectural Digest India, We can’t take our eyes off the BMW 8 Series concept car

     The hexagonal design motifs seen around the exterior are featured extensively in the carbon-fibre and leather accoutred interiors.

Derived terms

• accoutrement

Translations

to equip, to attire, to array

• Bulgarian: обличам (bg) (obličam), екипирам (bg) (ekipiram)
• French: accoutrer (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingue:
• Latin: accustor
• Swedish: utrusta (sv)

Anagrams

• accouter, cocurate

---

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: accoutrent, accoutres

Verb

accoutre

1. first-person singular present indicative of accoutrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of accoutrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of accoutrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of accoutrer
5. second-person singular imperative of accoutrer